Your family and friends will love this quick and easy recipe for Crock-Pot Pulled Pork. No slaving away at the oven or grill with this yummy recipe!
Crock-Pot Pulled Pork
We like to think that if there is one recipe that you MUST learn how to make in your slow cooker pulled pork is the recipe. If you are a slow cooker novice this is the recipe you need to learn. Tender pork butt or shoulder roast is slow cooked all day with some onion and pineapple juice.
Then pineapple juice contains a natural enzyme called bromelin which acts a wonderful meat tenderizer. Combine that all natural meat tenderizer with the low and slow cooking that happens in your slow cooker and you will end up with some amazing tender pork that easily pulls apart.
Once your meat is cooked you just add a bottle of your favorite barbecue sauce. We are kind of partial to Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce…we love it because it is full of flavor, has a nice balance of sweetness and smokiness and this is a bonus…if you are on a gluten-free diet it is gluten-free!
The pulled pork comes out so tender and full of flavor.
Serving Options For Crock-Pot Pulled Pork:
- Serve on hamburger buns or rolls.
- Serve on Hawaiian Sweet Rolls for amazing sliders.
- Wrap up in a tortilla or wrap.
- Make pulled pork tacos
- Make pulled pork taquitos
- Top a pizza.
- Use leftovers in a this recipe for Crock-Pot Pulled Pork Cheesy Bacon Dip
- Got other ways you serve pulled pork? Leave a comment below and let us know!
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| Servings | 10People |
| Prep Time | 30Minutes |
| Cook Time | 8 - 10Hours On LOW Or 4 - 5 Hours On HIGH |
- 4 pounds Pork Butt Roast can also use a pork shoulder roast
- 1 whole Onion sliced
- 2 cups Pineapple Juice
- 16 ounces Barbecue Sauce your favorite brand
- 1 cup Onion shredded or minced small
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- I strongly suggest you use a liner, this will make the removal of the moisture/grease a lot easier which you need to do later.
- Normal pulled pork cuts are done with a Butt or a Shoulder cut.
- Spray the liner with pam.
- In 6 quart or larger slow cooker put a few slices of onion down and then place the Butt Roast and put the rest of the onion slices on top.
- Pour the pineapple juice over the top of it.
- Cook for 4-5 hours on high.
- You can also cook this on low all day for about 8 hours but will still need to do the next step, so this is not a great recipe to do while your at work and come home and finish and have the ability to eat once you get home...FYI.
- After the 4-5 hours, pull out and put in a bowl, as your pulling apart with a couple of forks, remove any fat.
- Add the Barbecue Sauce and shredded onion, and mix well.
- If you have used a liner you can easily pull out the liner and discard the entire contents into the trash.
- If you have not used a liner you will need to carefully drain all the liquids out and clean the crock-pot.
- Since I'm all about not scrubbing the crock-pot I put in a new liner and put in the pulled-pork, and now put on low for about 3 hours stirring about half way through.
Wow does this look delicious! There’s nothing better than pulled pork and yours is perfect. Thanks for sharing! Great blog you have here – I’m glad to have found you!
I used a Rival crock-pot (three settings: low, high, warm) and cooked the 3 1/2 lbs. of pork shoulder on high for 5 hours and then 1 more hour on low. I was impressed – very tender meat and the pineapple juice and onion adds some good flavor. I was super hungry and skipped that final step of cooking the meat for 3 more hours in BBQ sauce, you’ll need lots of patience to do that : > )
The pineapple juice is the key to some super tender pulled pork. Thanks Buddy for dropping by with your comments. We have a hard time resisting the meat too!